Open yourself to all that fills you
Social media is not about connection or keeping in touch. It’s about displaying ones life and getting gratification from external validation. It’s about validating people you don’t know by idolizing the small snapshot of the part of their lives they choose to show. It’s about building a social brand more than anything else and that’s exhausting.
This entire blog will, of course, reflect the times in which we live. I’m hoping to keep it positive for the most part, but currently politics is taking a center stage position. I lieu of posting a diatribe about the current political climate and stressing everyone out, I would like to simply leave you with this…
The voice of the people, i.e. the way that they effectively communicate ideas and share knowledge, is the cornerstone of humanity’s success as a species. We have no claws. We’re not particularly strong. We’re not especially fast. We have not defensive or offensive traits nor armament of any kind. In the grandness of the animal…
I began, many moons ago, as a traveler in a strange new world.